First rate analysis of the Lisbon trickery - from the French

The entire article is available from the blog, Agora Vox, The Citizen Media, linked here. A quote with one of the many footnotes, helpful to Stuart Wheeler's legal team: ....................... The Lisbon treaty is not a consistent text, but a combination of amendments to the European constitution, references to previous treaties and annexes, which isolate the most controversial parts. The method “is to keep a part of the innovations of the constitutional treaty and to split them into several texts in order to make them less visible. The most innovative dispositions would pass as simple amendments of the Maastricht and Nice treaties. The technical improvements would be gathered in an innocuous treaty. The whole would be addressed to Parliaments, which would decide with separate votes. The public opinion would therefore unknowingly adopt the dispositions that it would not accept if presented directly.”(17) Little matter then that the treaty should be 267 pages long, and about 3000 with the annexes (18). Thanks to this trick, the reluctant peoples can be ignored. This draws suspicion on the previous steps of European integration. For after all, as José-Manuel Barroso put it, “If a referendum had to be held on the creation of the European Community or the introduction of the euro, do you think these would have passed?”(19) ..................................... (19) President of the European commission, Daily Telegraph, November 4, 2007.